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Windows 95 games on Windows 2000
Name: Erwin Date: February 10, 2001 at 15:16:29 Pacific
Comment:
I tried to install 2 games for Windows 95 on Windows 2000; tthe game "pirates" from funnybone interactive is not working. No help is found on the internet, all possibilities acc. to Windows 200 help are checked. The setup is interrupted at the end, if i try to start the start32.exe program file i get the message "fileio handles error". If i try to open it by using APCOMPAT.exe i get an error about the msvcrt.dll file. does anybody can help me?
Name: realdem0n Date: February 10, 2001 at 15:29:05 Pacific
Reply:
most windows 95 games aren't compatible on windows 2000.
windows 95 has the original DOS underneath it.
windows 2000 does not. it is basically Windows NT 5.0.
most NEW games will work on NT systems though.
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Response Number 2
Name: Fritz Date: February 10, 2001 at 21:45:35 Pacific
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Give it up. It MAY not even run under Win98, but 2000 IS a lost cause. Get an old drive, or make a partition on your current drive & make a dual boot system with Win95 or 98 on it, just for your old games.
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Response Number 3
Name: Super Play Date: February 11, 2001 at 13:47:12 Pacific
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Check the Microsoft update site as there is a compatibility update that adds support for loads of old games under 2ooo
Summary: As you can see from my CPU/Ram entry above I'm not the most tech savy guy but I'm working on it. Anyway here's my question - on my old PC which ran Win95 I was able to create a "Shortcut to DOS" ico...
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